May Club Meeting

For our May club meeting we had a follow up to a Landscape Photography talk given by Don Bishop at our April meeting and looked at what we felt made a landscape picture ‘pop’ and what left us a bit underwhelmed. We covered some techniques and processes that can be used to get the most…

OPC Photo Break to Selworthy (Exmoor)

Following on from the successful OPC photography field trips in 2022 to Northumberland and Whitby in March and October respectively, 10 intrepid members headed to the South West on Monday 6th March 2023. The weather forecast looked grim but for photographers the weather is simply a challenge to be flexible about how to shoot images….

February Club Meeting

Our February club meeting this year was a two part event. We decided to build on the presentation in January by Andy Phillips and have a theme of ‘Still Life’ for our members slideshow. We had a number of questions from the members about how to set up a small studio at home suitable for…

OPC Photo Weekend to Whitby Oct 2022

Eight members of the original 9 who were to go on the trip, made their way to Whitby for a photo weekend on the North Yorkshire coast. Our brilliant organizer for the weekend, Martin Arrowsmith, had to sadly cancel his visit due to illness, and he would be sorely missed. With all the work Martin…

January Club Meeting

We welcomed in 2023 with a fantastic talk from professional photographer Andy Phillips. Andy’s work covers a wide range of genres including landscape, commercial work, infra red and table top/close up work. His talk to us was around the table top and close up work and is going to form the basis of events we…

December Club Meeting

Well our (by now) traditional December Christmas Fuddle meeting was as social and enjoyable as usual. We had a look at some of the images taken by our members on the recent Whitby photo break, enjoyed the super selection of Seasonal images which was our theme for the evening. As always, we had a fascinating…

November Club Meeting

For our November meeting we welcomed Justin Minns as a Zoom guest speaker. Justin is a well-known professional photographer based in East Anglia. He has been published in a number of photographic magazines and is the author of the excellent Fotovue book ‘Photographing East Anglia’. Justin’s talk gave a fantastic insight into how a professional…

October Club Meeting

For our October meeting we had a follow up on our September meeting by looking at a range of images, submitted by our members, a selection of which demonstrated low light photography techniques. As always, we had a wonderful variety of images and some great imagination being shown. A small selection of the images are…

September Club Meeting

Well, we started off our 2022-23 season with an excellent practical evening organised by Chris and Mark. The theme for the evening was low light photography and we split into two groups, one lead by Mark and one by Chris. After our half time tea break, we swapped over. Mark’s group were looking at how…

July Club Meeting – Steven & Angie Lomas

At our July club meeting we were treated to a talk by Steven and Angie Lomas on their once in a lifetime trip to the Falkland Islands. Although Steven and Angie aren’t seasoned travellers, indeed most of their holidays have been taken in the UK, but at a key point in their lives, they decided…